Contributory Parent Temporary Visa

This visa allows parents to migrate to Australia permanently to join their children who are settled Australian citizen or settled permanent resident.

This above visa requires sponsorship by your child living in Australia.

This Contributed Parent visa allows you to:

have access to Australia's medical expenses and hospital care assistance scheme, Medicare,
work in Australia,
study, but you are not eligible to apply for Austudy.

Duration

The visa can be either a temporary or a permanent one.

Contributed Parent (Temporary) Visa

Contributed Parent (Migrant) Visa

If you are granted temporary visa and want to live in Australia permanently, you can apply for the Contributory Parent (Migrant) Visa. You must apply for the permanent visa before this temporary visa expires. Kindly contact GICS to convert the temporary visa to migrant visa.

Eligibility Criteria

Age

There are no age restrictions on this category.

Sponsor

Sponsorship shall be obtained from your child. If your child is under 18 years you may also be sponsored by one the following:

• your child's spouse, or
• a close family relative or guardian of your child, or
• a close family relative or guardian of your child's spouse, or
• a community organisation.

Relationship

The applicant and their spouse must ensure that qualifying the balance of family test, i.e. have an equal or greater number of children living in Australia than in their home country or any other country.

Assurance of Support

You must have a commitment by a person prepared to provide you with an Assurance of Support(AoS).

An AoS is a legal commitment by a person (can be the sponsor or anyone) to repay to the Australian Government certain welfare payments paid to migrants during their respective AoS period. An AoS is also a commitment to provide financial support to the person applying to migrate, so that they will not have to rely on social welfare payments.

An AoS period under Parent visa is 10 years and it commences from the date of:

visa grant, for applicants in Australia

arrival on the migrant visa, for applicants outside Australia.

As a Parent category visa applicant, an AoS bond (held for 10 years) of AUD$ 10,000 is required for the main applicant and $2000 for any adult secondary applicant and the same has to be provided before the visa is granted.

This visa requests the sponsor to submit a written undertaking to provide support, accommodation and financial assistance for the applicant and any accompanying spouse and dependent family members during their first 2 years in Australia.

Health & Character

Australia has strict health and character requirements that must be met before any permanent Australian visa of more than 12 months will be granted. People attempting migration to Australia under this category will be required to:

Undergo a medical examination and chest x-ray undertaken by one of a panel of doctors selected by the Australian authorities, and;

Obtain police certificates for all countries in which they have lived for more than 12 months in the 10 years leading up to the application.

Processing Time

The current processing time is generally up to nine months from the application lodgement date. However, this is subject to the yearly quota.